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Tender Offers: Take the Money and Run

Tenders and calls are one of the best ways to beat this market. If someone is willing to pay you more than they have to, take the money and run. It isn’t often someone pays you more than they’re legally obligated to pay. But that’s exactly what’s happening more and…

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Investing in a Low Interest Rate Market

In this incredibly low interest rate environment, there are some investments you'll probably want to avoid, as well as some better choices for where to invest. For the last year, the effective federal funds interest rate has been 0.25%. The federal funds rate is considered one of the most important…

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Emerging Markets: The Ultimate High Growth Investments

Emerging markets like Vietnam and Cambodia are full of rich opportunities for both value and growth investors. Imagine waking up one morning and turning on the news to hear that interest rates are rising again to slow down growth… It’s something we heard in the United States a long time…

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Healthcare Reform: Bad News for Big Pharma?

Healthcare reform could be a minefield for Big Pharma in the long run. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – less fondly known as “Obamacare” – was the big story to close out the month of March, as the Supreme Court officially took the case. In an effort to…

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Three Easy Ways to Invest in Water

You can be a contrarian. Or you can be a victim. If you prefer the former, here are a few simple ways to invest in water. “You can be a contrarian. Or you can be a victim.” – Rick Rule As Executive Editor of Investment U, I’m dedicated to providing…

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Should I be Worried About a Dividend Tax Increase?

The upcoming dividend tax increase will most likely make dividend paying stocks cheaper, which means great buys for long-term investors. The President’s budget was released last week, and it wants to get back to taxing dividends at ordinary income levels for individuals making more than $200,000 a year and couples…

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Investing in Frontier Markets

The Guggenheim Frontier Markets ETF (NYSE: FRN) provides an easy and diversified way to capture growth in frontier markets. Of the 26 countries I’ve visited, one memory in particular stands out in my mind. I was in China. Not in Shanghai or Beijing, mind you, but far out west in…

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Invest in Graphene with GrafTech International (NYSE: GTI)

Source: ScienceNews What you’re about to discover could revolutionize everything from electronics and aerospace to transportation and energy. It’s the thinnest, strongest material on earth. And in 2010, it won Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, two scientists from the University of Manchester in England, the Nobel Prize in Physics. This…

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Bond Funds: The Worst Investment You Can Possibly Make

Avoid bond funds in 2012. These investors are about to get slaughtered. At our 14th Annual Investment U Conference at the beautiful Grand Del Mar in San Diego last week, I discussed a number of attractive investment opportunities available right now. But I also warned them about one of the…

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Stiff-Arm the Taxman with a Backdoor Roth IRA

Highly compensated earners still can’t make annual contributions to Roth IRAs – directly. However, 2010 gave them a loophole… The origins of the Roth IRA go back to Newt Gingrich’s takeover of Congress back in 1994 and the “Contract with America,” where it was called the American Dream Savings (ADS)…

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